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So someone on here with more defensive knowledge than me please explain the pack defense. Is that Molinari's defense where you basically pack it in and allow passes so as to require the offense to use more time to get a shot? Am I correct that a pack defense would very much conflict with Miles' preferred defensive style of getting after the ball more? I know I'm not using all the proper terms and all but is my simplified understanding correct at all? Can these 2 styles mesh? Do we need to get rid of Coach Mo? We are clearly better when we are creating turnovers and when the defense leads to more of s tradition offense.

What's scary is that on paper, this game was completely in our favor.9 times out of 10, scoring 72 points at home on 45% from the field, 42% from deep, and 87% from the line will get it done no problem. 4 more assists than your opponent. 1 less turnover than your opponent. Triple double alert from your PG that produces very minimal stats his entire career. At first glance you sit at wonder how in the hell we ever lost this game. But to allow them more defensive rebounds than our total rebounds is pathetic. To allow them over double the FT attempts we shoot is awful. I just don't understand it with this team. I don't know how everyone else feels, but I think this one stings more to me than the Samford loss, and trust me I was pissed after the Samford game. But to give up a 12 point lead at home to a conference foe with a record like that (granted they played a shitty non con) just absolutely kills me. I said it previously but I still completely think Miles is the guy for this job, but I'm starting to question it more than I should. The loss of Craig Smith is way more devastating than any of us ever could've imagined, and the addition of Molinari has just killed us. Something has to change IMMEDIATELY! Obviously I'm frustrated, disappointed, and pissed that we lost. But is it scary that we had great numbers yesterday and lost? Or is it encouraging that we played well in so many areas and shoulda beat a good team despite having a young and incomplete team once again? I know that at some point you've got to just win a damn game but still...That 42% from 3 btw was 50% before about 4 misses in a row during desperation time at the end. That game yesterday, we win by 20 if we just box out Pardon. It's that simple and we shouldn't over complicate it. I know the big man/rebounding situation is the glaring weakness but that's the single thing that cost us the game yesterday. Was that just last year when Rivers wasn't providing anything from a rebounding standpoint? And then he was in the Miles doghouse, coach lit a fire underneath him and then he had some great rebounding games? Maybe he can get Morrow going in that regard.

And now we need to ask the question again that Dimes keeps bringing up. Does Morrow playing timidly have anything to do with still being hampered by his foot injury? Or is it the system creating the timidness when he's on the floor? He looked real awkward when he went up for that layup he almost missed. From watching his film he should've just gone straight to the rim with that one.

And as an extension to that last post, for all the clammoring for a big guy, we have 2 of them. One is a freshman, the other is a sophomore and if we treat them right, one or both may turn out to be pretty darn good by the time they are juniors and seniors. No, they're not large, paint-controlling pogo sticks, but that's the way you have to do it with big guys a lot of the time. You know, bring them in and train them up.

Post game radio interview Miles said he is questioning himself regarding lineups. I wonder if he had Hammonds in mind with that statement. I have to wonder if Pardon goes off like he did with Hammonds in there. It is comments like these that I hate. I am a big Miles supporter and I am a big team supporter. I believe in what Miles is doing and certainly am not losing faith in him. With that being said, he needs to get his **** together. STOP questioning yourself! You know more about the game of basketball than most everyone on here an it doesn't stop us from taking a position and sticking to it. I believe in Miles, but he needs to believe in himself. When that happens, I think we will see the team start believing in themselves too! I liked how he coached guys up today, he was fired up and was coaching. Not screaming and loosing his stuff. Here's the thing. Something has obviously happened/changed with Hammond because you don't 'question the lineup' to the point of not playing a guy who had started previously in the year even a single minute. Something has happened to warrant (in Miles' eyes) Hammond not playing and Miles is not questioning that. He's talking about something else. And yes I'd like to hear Miles be more confident with what he goes with, but coaches question or second-guess decisions after losses all the time. The thing I like about Miles is that at least he's honest about it, Miles has always been that way. The Hammond situation is weird. For a team that desperately needs help inside, it's weird for him to not get any time. At least to switch things up and see if someone new can keep a beast off the offensive glass. In Miles' mind, benching Hammond is no accident and he's not questioning that at all, whatever the reason may be. We don't know if it's injury, grades, or just the David Rivers treatment. If it's the latter, I would still prefer that Hammond get his chances on this thin team to help things out. He's sucked at times but he's also given some serviceable minutes and shown some things. Why not give him the chance to, you know, develop?

That's about right. No. That kid was trying to box out before the offensive board was given up.

And since we are on the topic, here is how I see Miles' tenure at Nebraska so far. He gets here. Expectations are zero. He immediately hits the floor running from the recruiting standpoint. Petteway, Pitchford, Biggs. Brings in Vucetic, a big. A big toothpick but a big nonetheless. Season one is a throwaway, everyone knows it. Shields comes into his own. He brings in Leslee Smith. Another big. Season two, Miles strikes gold, catches lightning in a bottle. NCAA tournament appearance. Lands senior transfer Moses Abraham. Yet another big. Still trying to fill gaps. Jacob Hammond, yet another big comes in. Now for season three, expectations are at a ridiculous level considering where the program had been for decades. Season three is a flop. And now here we are season four. Andrew White, Ed Morrow, Glynn Watson, Michael Jacobsen, Jack McVeigh, Bakari Evelyn. Remember, Miles had never intended to need 6 fresh bodies at this point. Petteway, Pitchford, and Biggs are supposed to be in their senior seasons now. Instead, because of a multitude of factors, there is a large gap to bridge and there is a huge crop of newcomers, several who have to play meaningful roles instead of being afforded the chance to grow up within an established program. Oh, totally forgot the part about assistant leaves, new assistant hired, assistant leaves, another new assistant hired, The new assistant leaves before the season starts and another new assistant is hired. All of this inconsistency of the coaching staff within a program that has had a partial, incomplete team each and every year since Miles has been here. I'm not trying to make excuses more than I'm just trying to validate what I've seen over the last 4 years with actual reasons. This is all on Miles. I know it's been said that without the tournament appearance we don't get the 4 star guys we have on the roster today, but is it possible that Miles catching lightning in a bottle actually hurt the program build that Miles needed to make Nebraska a consistent winner? I keep hearing people question whether Miles has the tools to coach the upgrade in talent that he has recruited here. In my eyes, the single best thing Miles can do with this season is to teach in a way (regardless of win-loss record) that makes all the newcomers and freshman want to remain with the team so that next year's crop of 4-star guys roll into a program behind the current newbies. I need to see some stability. With the assistants to. Now if there's a player or assistant that needs to go then by all means go but for the most part id like to see us roll from one season to the next without major upheaval. Please. And for goodness sake, find a big man. I know quality ones are hard to find and I'm not still pretty sure that we will have something in Hammond or Jacobsen by the time try are upper classmen, but let's start rolling in big men behind these guys each and every year. My god Miles has had bad luck with the injuries, the swings and misses, and the desperation heaves on the big men.

Jury is still out on his recruiting IMO. On paper this is the case but unfortunately this does not guarantee anything. I think it would be wise for him to ask Coach Mo to move on after this season and hire someone who can help on the offensive end.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk This year's team is dreadful on the defensive end. Our offense was good enough to win today, even with the dreadful last 4 minutes. Agree with this to a point. The defense has been downright pathetic at times. Especially the interior defense and pick/roll defense. I have seen some slight improvements guarding the post. Guys aren't leaving their feet and are forcing their man to at least shoot over top of them. The defense wasn't awful today. A couple mental lapses but okay, just okay for the most part. Now checking out after the stops and allowing 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chances was another story. I still feel Miles and Mo are conflicting with their ideal defensive strategies. Miles wants to GATA and Mo wants to allow passes to force opponents to drain the shot clock to make the game messy. We play well in spurts and it's always when we GATA, force turnovers, and get out and run. That's when we are best. Guys are aggressive trying to get to the rim or are finding guys spot up in transition. There is no hesitation or tentativeness when the defense sparks the offense with a steal. Now, when we play Mo-ball (aren't attacking the ball on D) it leads to suffering at the offensive end. Guys are tentative, hesitant, play on their heels, it's no good.

When I saw them (Elijah plus mom) they never seemed to be very much into paying any attention whatsoever to the game. Hopefully they were busy informing every person they know that he had committed here but i bet they were finding other things to do on their phones. It's too bad, and maybe the observations are way off (hopefully), but he ain't comin here.

Not too surprised that he's done just surprised that he has 'retired' and that he used that term. 23 year olds who haven't had a career don't retire, they just wash out after not being able to make it. Certainly weird.

Only 10 years? Financially, I would have to be in a deep hole before I would give up the tickets. Once you're invested in something like Nebrasketball and you're a true fan-you don't just give up. You'll be kicking yourself once we are good and you gave up your season tickets. The best part about where we are at right now is that everything has to come to a head, one way or another, in 4-5 years or less. What I mean is we no longer are leaning on blind hope like we did in the Barry/Doc years. The talent (rated talent) has been recruited and landed. Either Miles and staff know how to coach the talent into something or they don't. We will find out soon.

Ok here we go. I've heard and read several people mention how this game tonight may be the tipping point in Miles' tenure here at Nebraska or something of that nature. Recruiting has certainly trended up in a big way since Miles arrived here but now it's time to take this talent, mold it, and build a program. Can Miles do that? I think we've seen enough to question that at the very least. Can someone begin to explain to me what we saw just 2 years ago in the 13-14 season? Was it just lightning in a bottle? Miles has admitted on several occasions that we just got hot down the conference stretch, which is probably true, but we lost just one game at home that season. The offense seemed to move. We got cuts, back door cuts and layups. We went on runs. We really went after the ball on defense and forced turnovers. What has happened since? Coach Mo came on. We seemed to go away from the GATA defense, and our offense has really lacked an identity. It's lacked movement. It's lacked confidence. We play timid and on our heels without attacking most of the time. Have other teams just figured out what Miles does? Is this all there is to Miles? Good coaches always have something else in their arsenal when a team figures them out. Does Miles? We haven't seen it.

It was a weird game. Poor offense (I'll put some of that on the Samford press), poor shooting, and very poor FT shooting. Don't know the numbers but we out rebounded them by a lot but we extremely tentative on the offensive end, nobody wanted to make anything happen, then we would make a poor decision and drive into 4 guys and get a charge call. I also thought the rotations were a little weird, it's hard to blame Miles though for trying something, anything a little different to see if we could get something going. Interior defense was again horrendous. Jacobsen and Hammond were consistently out of position or leaving their feet to give Samford a layup drill. I thought Miles attempt to go small when he brought Benny and McVeigh in at the end was okay, it's just when Jacobsen came back in he did get a block and a couple rebounds to key our last gasp effort. The dagger 3s by #12 (I think) in the corner were just that, daggers.

Nebraska 87 Samford 61

And how great it is to have more than 1 viable starting option at a position. How quickly we forget. Only a half decade ago our starting 5 consisted of only 1.5 players who deserved to see a division 1 basketball court. It was like, if you're wearing a jersey get in there. After the starting 5 with jerseys...it was like WHOA, bring in the student manager! He might be 6th man! And that's a true story. Just ask Nick Krenk.

Not only this...but this staff didn't even try to land Thomas. Miles said differently when asked the question on his post game show last night.

Was it last year or a couple years ago where Miles basically said 'it's just another game on the schedule' or something like that? It's basically coach speak, something any coach has to say even though we all know this game has much more to it, but their fans get all butt hurt about it, feeling all disrespected and such. And it's just what you said about Creighton fans trying to not be perceived as that second tier team. They are worried about that for some reason (even though they beat us every year) and it's why their game against Nebraska is their super bowl every year. In reality, even though the game obviously means something more, it's just what Miles said, it's just another game. And it's an L in the loss column for Nebraska. On to the next one. The Rhode Island game is now even more important than last night's.

Their fans. I know this will get ripped apart and taken for whining, which it is, but I want to hear of others who have had similar experiences so I can put a stamp on what I already know. Their fans are A+ douchebags. Every single one of them. That's what I assume because I've not been proven otherwise. You know, guilty until proven innocent. I've been to that horrible arena dozens of times and each and every time I've been planted in a spot right next to or in front of or behind complete A-holes. Just cheer for your team, you know, be a good fan. I know I will get that there are bad fans in every fanbase. Yes, there are. But Creighton must have the highest percentage of bad fans of any fanbase. It took everything in my power last night to not turn around and deck someone. Isn't winning the game enough? Or how about winning every year for the last several? Is that good enough? I guess not. Somebody reply and report that they sat next to somebody nice.

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Nebraska 77 Bluejays 64 11 Screw Crayton

Looks like not returning to Nebraska this year was the right choice. Especially if he is that first D-Leaguer called up.

Morrow left his feet 4 times attempting to guard the post and all these plays ended in a layup or free throws for Abilene

Nebraska. 104 ACU. 62

Higgins ruins everything every single time. It's a fact.

Nebraska 82 Miami 67